Your posts remind me what a polarizing figure Michael Bay is. When I saw his name, I immediately decided not to watch The Last Ship. Although Bay does do a fine job on big budget action sequences, his films uniformly strike me as overproduced, overlong, poorly written, and badly acted. Sorry, boys, I just can't make myself watch this show.

On a more positive note,I really like Rhona Mitra, who plays the doctor. She was terrific in Strike Back.

replayrob

05-10-2014 02:55 PM

Jayne!
And Rhona Mitra...
I'll give it a go.

mgkdragn

05-10-2014 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by gwsat

Your posts remind me what a polarizing figure Michael Bay is. When I saw his name, I immediately decided not to watch The Last Ship. Although Bay does do a fine job on big budget action sequences, his films uniformly strike me as overproduced, overlong, poorly written, and badly acted. Sorry, boys, I just can't make myself watch this show.

On a more positive note,I really like Rhona Mitra, who plays the doctor. She was terrific in Strike Back.

Like I said ...

.. with me, it's the overproduced, overlong part that I like ..

he's the Irwin Allen of the New Millennium ...

73shark

05-10-2014 03:24 PM

Rhona Mitra . . . I'm in.

gwsat

05-10-2014 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by mgkdragn

Like I said ...

.. with me, it's the overproduced, overlong part that I like ..

he's the Irwin Allen of the New Millennium ...

As you may recall, I love loud and dumb too. Still, Bay's stuff just doesn't work for me, its frequently great action sequences notwithstanding.

mgkdragn

05-10-2014 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by gwsat

As you may recall, I love loud and dumb too. Still, Bay's stuff just doesn't work for me, its frequently great action sequences notwithstanding.

I'm guessing you might just sneak in and at least take a peek ..

Waboman

05-10-2014 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by mgkdragn

People either like him of hate him .. I like his style ..

I like Bay too. Can't wait for TF4.

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Originally Posted by gwsat

Your posts remind me what a polarizing figure Michael Bay is. When I saw his name, I immediately decided not to watch The Last Ship. Although Bay does do a fine job on big budget action sequences, his films uniformly strike me as overproduced, overlong, poorly written, and badly acted. Sorry, boys, I just can't make myself watch this show.

On a more positive note,I really like Rhona Mitra, who plays the doctor. She was terrific in Strike Back.

And Rhona Mitra is icing on the cake. My DVR is ready, Freddy. C'mon, gwsat.

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Originally Posted by mgkdragn

I'm guessing you might just sneak in and at least take a peek ..

You know he will.

mgkdragn

05-10-2014 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Waboman

You know he will.

ss9001

05-11-2014 05:45 AM

Penny Dreadful - Eve Green
The Last Ship - Rhona Mitra

I'll bet oink will be watching both

reds75

05-11-2014 06:30 AM

Will take a look .

hopper810

05-11-2014 06:43 AM

I'm in

I hadn't even heard of it till now,Thanks for starting this thread

ss9001

05-11-2014 07:21 AM

re Last Ship storyline
the premise sure sounds familiar to me...

remember Crusade, the sequel to Babylon 5?

archiguy

05-11-2014 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by ss9001

re Last Ship storyline
the premise sure sounds familiar to me...

remember Crusade, the sequel to Babylon 5?

Unfortunately, yes. Gads, that was terrible. I don't know how much Joe Straczynski had to do with 'Crusade' but it was a very poor follow-up to a classic, seminal sci-fi series.

You could make a comparison to 'Caprica' following BSG, I suppose. But I thought 'Caprica' was a much better effort from a planning and scripting point of view.

Ray Lucca

05-11-2014 09:31 AM

It's Summer, I'm going to check it out.

Oh, and I will alert the Media to GWsat's Michael Bay review. I'm sure the Network Exec's are shaking in their boots...

gwsat

05-11-2014 04:20 PM

Because so many of you don't think Bay's direction is quite as awful as I always have, I recorded and rewatched Pearl Harbor when it showed up on AMC the other night. Fortunately, AMC had edited the film so that the edited for TV version actually ran for only a little over 2 hours. That helped. Some of the soap was eliminated but the mostly wonderful action sequences were retained. The depiction of the attack on Pearl Harbor was so terrific that I forgave the wooden performances of the film's pretty boy stars, Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett. In fairness to them, though, I am not sure that Sir Lawrence Olivier could have breathed life into the lines they were given.

Anyway, to stop all the scorn and obloquy over my earlier refusal to watch The Last Ship, I am going to at least start it. I am hoping that my low expectations for the series will lead to me being pleasantly surprised. Stranger things have happened. Maybe I'll even become a Michael Bay fan. . . . Nah, never happen.

mgkdragn

05-11-2014 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by gwsat

Anyway, to stop all the scorn and obloquy over my earlier refusal to watch The Last Ship, I am going to at least start it. I am hoping that my low expectations for the series will lead to me being pleasantly surprised. Stranger things have happened. Maybe I'll even become a Michael Bay fan. . . . Nah, never happen.

You know I was just messin' with you ...

gwsat

05-11-2014 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by mgkdragn

You know I was just messin' with you ...

No offense taken. The real reason I decided to give The Last Ship a chance was that I liked the edited for TV version of Pearl Harbor I saw on AMC way better than I had when I saw the theatrical release. Perhaps Bay should hire AMC to edit his films.

ss9001

05-11-2014 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by gwsat

Because so many of you don't think Bay's direction is quite as awful as I always have, I recorded and rewatched Pearl Harbor

I didn't know it was a Bay film or at least wouldn't have attached any significance to it when my wife & I saw in the theaters. terrible movie, terrible acting, hokey lame-ass soap story. like you said, it's only redeeming quality was the attack scenes. Cuba Gooding did OK in it playing a real person's historical role. everyone else...

now that I know PH was Bay's, the fact that action was good but plot & character development wasn't, fits his style

gwsat

05-11-2014 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by ss9001

I didn't know it was a Bay film or at least wouldn't have attached any significance to it when my wife & I saw in the theaters. terrible movie, terrible acting, hokey lame-ass soap story. like you said, it's only redeeming quality was the attack scenes. Cuba Gooding did OK in it playing a real person's historical role. everyone else...

now that I know PH was Bay's, the fact that action was good but plot & character development wasn't, fits his style

PHASE SIX
Captain Tom Chandler and the crew of the USS Nathan James set out for the Arctic with two civilian virologists, Dr. Rachel Scott and Dr. Quincy Tophet, who claim to be studying birds. When they come under attack by a renegade team of Russian forces, Chandler learns these virologists are actually collecting samples of the source of a deadly virus that has wiped out over half the human population while they've been at sea. As they head home on the orders of the remaining U.S. government, Chandler and his crew realize that home is a shadow of what they left, and the safest place to develop a vaccine for this deadly disease is out at sea on their ship.

I'm planning on catching the 11:05pm June 22 airing because I have both tuners scheduled for other shows at the 9pm slot (MeTV: Columbo: Matter of Honor; and NBC: America's Got Talent special).

lobosrul

06-20-2014 08:21 AM

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Because so many of you don't think Bay's direction is quite as awful as I always have, I recorded and rewatched Pearl Harbor when it showed up on AMC the other night. Fortunately, AMC had edited the film so that the edited for TV version actually ran for only a little over 2 hours. That helped. Some of the soap was eliminated but the mostly wonderful action sequences were retained. The depiction of the attack on Pearl Harbor was so terrific that I forgave the wooden performances of the film's pretty boy stars, Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett. In fairness to them, though, I am not sure that Sir Lawrence Olivier could have breathed life into the lines they were given.

Anyway, to stop all the scorn and obloquy over my earlier refusal to watch The Last Ship, I am going to at least start it. I am hoping that my low expectations for the series will lead to me being pleasantly surprised. Stranger things have happened. Maybe I'll even become a Michael Bay fan. . . . Nah, never happen. http://files.avsforum.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

I too cannot stand Michael Bay films (except Bad Boys, that was just a good, dumb popcorn film). However, I've never heard of anyone directing every episode of a TV series. I bet he is only actually directing the pilot.

Unfortunately, yes. Gads, that was terrible. I don't know how much Joe Straczynski had to do with 'Crusade' but it was a very poor follow-up to a classic, seminal sci-fi series.

You could make a comparison to 'Caprica' following BSG, I suppose. But I thought 'Caprica' was a much better effort from a planning and scripting point of view.

According to Joe, the network started messing with the scripts almost immediately, so he basically gave up on it. That said, I hated the lead actor and the music was terrible compared to the sweeping beauty of the Bab5 score.

It was doomed from the start, IMO.

Waboman

06-23-2014 02:03 AM

Enjoyed the pilot episode. I do loves me a good virus-apocalypse story. Looking forward to more.